Chapter 16 – 016. The Secret of the Divine Tree (1)
“This…”
What is it?
Oliver Baotman, the school principal of Aether, muttered blankly as he looked at the changed world.
The place where they were standing was not Aether’s garden, but a prison where not even a single ray of light could enter and there was only dull darkness.
The magic lamps on the wall lightly illuminate the inside of the dark prison.
Everyone except for Eunhyeon looked very nervous as they watched this phenomenon.
It was the same for Erwin, as well as Illyana and Riod, who were Eunhyeon’s colleagues.
Illyana suddenly grabbed Eunhyeon by the collar, and she argued in a voice so small that only Eunhyeon could hear.
“Hey! You, what is this magic?!”
“Ah, lately. I made it once because I thought I could use it.”
“Under…”
Illyana was so stunned by those words that she couldn’t answer properly.
Soon, her gaze, which had been filled with astonishment, changed to a strange anticipation, and she asked Eunhyeon again.
“Maybe, can I learn too?”
“Huh. This is a bunch.”
“Okay…”
Magic that reconstructs the space of a certain area into something completely different, I had never heard of it.
This was the moment when the spirit of inquiry as a wizard sparked in a new type of magic that was completely different from teleport, the highest level of teleportation magic, but if Eun-hyeon couldn’t learn it, he couldn’t learn it.
Knowing that, Illyana was very sorry, but she gave up neatly.
“What is this magic?”
Oliver, a middle-aged man full of inquisitive spirit for magic next to Illyana, looked at Eun-hyeon and asked.
“This is a kind of illusion magic that I have reconstructed based on past events.”
“Welcome magic…”
Mumbling those words into her mouth, Eleanor reached for her solitary cell inside the prison.
Eleanor looked very curious as she saw her own hand pass through the door of her solitary cell without touching it.
“Like the princess’ arm, it is impossible for us to interfere with this illusion. This illusion is only a ‘reenactment’ of what happened in the past.”
“Relive the past…”
“If you come to our school to teach this magic…”
“Unfortunately, that is impossible. I have no intention of teaching it, and it’s not the kind of magic that can be taught in the first place.”
It was roughly evasive in the same way for Illyana, but it was impossible for anyone to actually learn this magic.
This wasn’t exactly magic, it was because it was one of Eunhyeon’s Apostle’s powers.
The ‘authority of duplication that brings past karma into the present’ given by Urud.
It was impossible to bring something that could destroy common sense or civilization in this world, but on the contrary, it was the power to bring anything as long as the conditions were met.
Even if it is an ‘event that existed in the past’.
Eunhyeon brought ‘events that existed in the past’ to the present and reproduced them.
It’s the same principle as playing a previously saved video file in front of people, but it was impossible to teach this ability to others.
“Reenacting past events means that what you are trying to show is my story.”
“That’s right. What I am going to show you now is the truth about the case of Baron Hersha.”
“Truth?”
“Well, the explanation ends here. Now, I hope all of you will watch the ‘play’ based on the ‘true story’.”
Again and again
Starting with Eunhyun’s words, someone’s footsteps were heard.
The arranged characters appeared and announced that the play had begun.
A man was sitting on a stone bed in a solitary cell beyond the bars, with wooden handcuffs on his hands.
A middle-aged man of a certain age frowned as if he was uncomfortable being confined in a prison cell.
However, it was not the expression of a person who is anxious in prison.
– Are you okay?
A young man walked over and stood in front of the grate.
The man looked at the prisoner behind the bars and asked with a worried expression.
– Okay.
– What happened?
– It’s a false name. Will be released soon
There was a strange certainty in the middle-aged man’s voice when he said that.
At this rate, he was sure that he couldn’t stay in prison forever.
– Father… I found it. A bag of gold coins hidden in my father’s room.
– …
– Actually… Is it?
– No.
– A Marquis noble named Bernard Boris also came to visit.
Hearing that name, Renion twitched his eyebrows for the first time.
He looked at Alvin and gave her first agitated expression.
– What does he say when he comes?
– My father asked me to help him recover and recover the stolen gold coins. Then, Erin and I will reduce the crime and even avoid the death penalty… It’s to the point where a Marquis or aristocrat would come to visit and say such things…
– Shit! Garbage children! How many gold coins have I taken care of? Are you really going to abandon me?!
Renion, who had remained calm until now, slammed the wooden handcuffs on the stone bed and cursed.
– There is nothing I can do about it. Alvin, get me out of prison. Next…
– To get your father out?
– Then? I raised you to be a wizard in preparation for times like this.
– … Ha.
Alvin let out a sigh of relief over her disappointment, not hiding her bewildered expression.
In the end, having made up her mind, Alvin took her heart and looked at his father and spoke to her.
– Father.
– What.
In response to Alvin’s serious voice, Rennie also slightly frowned at her.
Realizing that there was no hope even if he was in prison, Renion had the idea to break out of prison quickly and escape with the gold coins he had embezzled.
Although she didn’t like that Elvin was wasting her time, having to help her break out of prison on her own with her magic.
She desperately needed her son’s help to break out of here, so with patience she answered his call.
– Was it true that your father really loved your mother and married you?
– …
Renion was momentarily shaken by Alvin’s sudden question, and she didn’t answer right away.
– Is that important now?
– When I was very young…
Alvin clenched her fists, and she was speechless for a moment.
It’s like holding back your anger.
She was also trying to figure out how to put into words the scars of her memories she suffered in her childhood, which she hated to even recall, but which she could never forget.
-I still can’t forget the memory of my mother who fell on the floor, bleeding from her head, and how you screamed at her.
Alvin didn’t call Renion ‘father’ anymore.
He closed his eyes tightly, held back the anger that was about to burst out, and in his mind his pupils were dilated, and in a gradually fading consciousness.
A mother beckoning young Elvin and Erin to run away.
The feeling of despair that I felt for the first time when I saw the expression of a smile while saying it was okay in a faint voice.
Thinking of his mother, who was dying from her frequent beatings and mental illness, becoming weaker and weaker.
Her mother died, and as Erin grew and matured, she recalled her deceased mother, her own daughter with a beastly lustful gaze, and recalled her own abused sister.
Alvin couldn’t bear the fact that the blood of the man who made his mother the way he was was flowing inside him.
Younger in age, with nothing on hand, until she can create a means for herself to fight back.
He suppressed the rage that was welling up inside her, patiently holding back, waiting for the time to vent his stored rage someday.
– What are you talking about?
Renion, who hadn’t noticed the change in Erwin yet, frowned and asked.
– I already know. That you had a route to smuggle into another country in case you were discovered in your current embezzlement of breach of trust, and that neither I nor Erin were included in it.
Renion’s shoulders trembled at the words of Erwin, who revealed what he had secretly prepared in her calm voice.
Having mastered one of her black magic, her shadow art, Elvin planted his thoughts in Renion’s shadow and monitored Renion’s every move.
Because of that, I was able to know all about Renion’s corruption and illegal activities that she had not known well.
The more I learned about him, the more my disappointment, contempt, and hatred grew with each passing day.
Alvin, who predicted that it would take about 10 years for his rationality to be completely eroded by the shadow that devours his body, realized that the cause of the faster-than-expected rate of erosion was his negative feelings toward his father.
The shadows that ate away Erwin’s negative emotions met with that aggression and became more ferocious.
– That, how do you… !
– You fucking piece of shit!
It was the moment when the dam of emotions that Erwin had endured had finally collapsed.
Renion’s gaze gradually turned to astonishment.
Soon after, Erwin’s angry roar resonated in the prison, and he looked around to see if the jailer was coming.
Oddly enough, there was only cold silence in the prison, and it was only then that Renion began to think that something was strange.
Come to think of it, Elvin came to Renion alone without the companion of her guard, and she didn’t feel anyone even in the other cell.
There were many solitary cells and a large prison that could accommodate hundreds of people, but I thought that Renion and Alvin were the only ones here, and it made me have a cold imagination.
– That, that’s a misunderstanding.
– Misunderstanding?
– Okay. Misunderstood
– Under…
Alvin let her laugh out of embarrassment.
– Are you going to abandon this father! Why don’t you hurry and save me…
– Father?
As soon as he heard her words, Alvin put into action what she had firmly decided in her heart.
Elvin’s body, which disappeared in an instant, appeared in the shadows behind Renion.
Without a chance to recognize her or avoid her, Renion’s head fell to the floor and rolled around her cell.
A fountain of blood erupted from her severed neck, decorating the cell.
Elvin, who didn’t want to hear his will, excuses, or screams, cut Renion’s throat with her shadow weapon without hesitation.
– Don’t call me father with that filthy mouth.
Seeing her corpse with her head gone and only her body remaining, her blood spurting out, she muttered something that no one else could hear, then Alvin disappeared into the shadows again.
Even though the play ended with the characters exiting or dying, people remained silent.
It is frowned upon for showings that contain content that is too brutal.
There were people who wondered whether or not this hallucination Eun-hyeon showed was really true.
Although he was the lead in this play, there were also those who showed an attitude of indifference.
In her quiet and awkward silence, Eunhyun broke the silence and declared one fact about her.
“The culprit who murdered Renion Hersha was the warlock Elvin.”
Despite Eunhyun’s declaration, people did not open their mouths, and only the sound of the cold wind filled the heavy silence in the prison made of illusions.
The fact that she was murdered within three hours of Renion’s imprisonment in prison was unknown to all but a few.
It was because Renion’s death was announced as an ‘execution’ rather than a ‘murder’ in order to conceal this incident after she was murdered.
Erwin told the story of that incident, but why did Eun-hyeon, who had never seen Rennion’s face, accurately describe Rennion’s face, her own anger, and the killing scene in her vision? I wondered if
As if Eun-hyeon had seen the story of Erwin and Renion and the murder scene in person on the spot, I felt a sense of dissimilarity to the fact that he had reproduced it so realistically, but I did not deny the content itself.
People also realized that it was true that this vision shown by Eun-hyeon was a reproduction of what really happened.
It was because Alvin, who was the center of the story, was calm and didn’t say anything.
“Even if the content of that play really happened. There is one fact that I do not understand.”
The play is over, but still with the background of the prison, Alex comes forward and asks Alvin.
“Why did you try to kill my brother? What does it mean that our family made a deal with you?”
Depending on the answer, Alex, who had the intention of drawing her sword and attacking Elvin right away, fiddled with his waist so that he could pull out her sword at any time.
But the answer came from someone other than Alvin.
“That is it. Instead of Elvin handing over all the gold coins Renion stole to Duke Armitas, she created a situation where she could kill Renion, and she made a promise not to hold Elvin and Erin siblings guilty. .”
“What is that… ?”
“… ?”
Alex and Eleanor asked with their eyes wide open as if they hadn’t really expected that their father’s story would come out here.
Seeing that reaction, Eunhyeon laughed and continued talking.
“Isn’t it strange? According to the promise, the Duke’s family should have eaten an enormous amount of gold coins, and Erwin and Erin should have lived happily ever after, freed from their father’s abuse. Why did it look like this?”
It was as if he was mocking the two siblings of the Duke of Armitas.
Hearing this, the siblings frowned.
It’s as if they’re saying, ‘It’s all your family’s fault?’, But they haven’t heard anything.
“What did your father betray you for? Tell me straight up.”
Alex glared at Eun-hyeon, who was mocking him with a smirk, as he spoke.
